Read the full judgment text of HCMA 21/2013 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 30 August 2013.
1. The appellant was tried at Kowloon City Magistracy on five counts of indecent assault, contrary to section 122(1) of the Crimes Ordinance and two counts of committing an act outraging public decency, contrary to common law. For the sake of brevity I shall refer to the latter offence in this judgment as simply outraging public decency. The trial was presided over by Mr Ko Wai-hung. It commenced on 16 July 2012 and on 24 October 2012 the appellant was convicted of three counts of indecent ass